Blogs: New Energy

Josh Boger of the Biotechnology Industrial Organization and David Roberts of Grist.org offer different takes on the desirability of biofuels. more »

Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire and Grist.org's David Roberts are among the many promoting green-collar jobs in Denver this week. more »

There they were, billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens, Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope and Center for American Progress president John Podesta on the same stage at The Big Tent in Denver on Wednesday, in near-perfect harmony. Something’s wrong here.

And indeed there was, and it was Pope who pointed it out. more »

In recent posts, I've shown that conservative talk of an "All of the Above" energy policy flies in the face of repeated conservative actions to defeat anything that significantly i more »

In the latest edition of "The Week in Blog" over at bloggingheads.tv, the Heritage Foundation's Conn Carroll and I talked about the conservative blog reaction to the "Gang of 10" compromise, which would allow some drilling off the southeast coast in exchange for the end of subsidies to Big Oil and renewed investment in clean energy. more »

Conservatives won't even accept a compromise that allows for more drilling, because it would also help clean energy compete against Big Oil. more »

Sen. John McCain says advocating steps such as proper tire inflation to save fuel "is not an energy plan, my friends — that's a public service announcement" — much like a public service announcement in Bush Sr.'s administration. more »

The Dell computer company just announced a milestone. It is now a carbon-neutral business. more »

Conservatives are trying very hard to sustain their coastal drilling propaganda campaign, which is difficult when you have no facts to sustain your case. They have to stay one step ahead of the fact-checkers, which means regularly concocting new lies that make objective facts appear to be subjective debate points. more »

Take gas prices, the most pressing issue on the minds of Americans. Offer a blatant ploy that in fact won't help — but will profit Big Oil. Pocket over a million dollars in contributions from oil executives and use the money to put up an ad promising to take on Big Oil. Sen. John McCain seems intent on proving that it is possible to scorn Americans into voting for him. more »